// Speech recognition & synthesis
Voice & music
Speech-to-text, text-to-speech and real-time voice tooling.
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ElevenLabs Lifelike speech synthesis, voice cloning and voice agent platform. Closed / commercial Freemium WebiOSAndroid Suno Generates complete songs with vocals from a prompt. Closed / commercial Freemium WebiOSAndroid OpenAI Whisper v20250625 ★ 111k OpenAI open-source robust speech recognition model. Open source localPythonCLI TurboScribe High-accuracy audio and video transcription in ~100 languages. Closed / commercial Freemium Web Speechify Reads books, PDFs and web pages aloud in natural voices. Closed / commercial Freemium WebiOSAndroid Moises AI stem separation and practice tools for musicians. Closed / commercial Freemium WebiOSAndroid Fish Audio Expressive TTS and fast voice cloning. Closed / commercial Freemium WebAPI Descript Edit audio and video like a document, with transcription and AI voice. Closed / commercial Freemium WebmacOSWindows Wispr Flow Voice dictation in any app, cleaned up into polished text in real time. Closed / commercial Freemium macOSWindowsiOS Mureka Kunlun's AI music generation platform. Closed / commercial Freemium WebAPI Riverside Records and edits HD podcasts and video online with AI editing. Closed / commercial Freemium WebiOSAndroid HappyScribe Multilingual transcription, subtitles and meeting notes. Closed / commercial Freemium Web LALAL.AI Separates vocals and instruments and cleans audio. Closed / commercial Freemium WebmacOSWindows Cartesia Low-latency TTS and STT APIs for real-time voice agents. Closed / commercial Freemium API 豆包输入法 ByteDance's AI keyboard with accurate voice input. Closed / commercial Free iOSAndroidWindows Udio Generative music creation and sharing platform. Closed / commercial Freemium Web OmniVoice 0.2.1 ★ 15k High-quality voice cloning TTS for 600+ languages. Open source local voicebox ★ 58k Open-source AI voice studio for cloning, dictation and creation. Open source local Typeless AI voice dictation that turns speech into polished writing. Closed / commercial Freemium macOSWindowsiOS GPT-SoVITS ★ 63k Few-shot voice cloning and TTS. Open source local VibeVoice ★ 55k Microsoft's open-source frontier voice AI. Open source localAPI VoxCPM ★ 40k Tokenizer-free TTS for multilingual speech. Open source local index-tts ★ 25k Industrial-level controllable zero-shot TTS. Open source local FunASR ★ 21k Industrial-grade speech recognition toolkit. Open source local speech-to-speech ★ 14k Build local voice agents with open-source models. Open source local FluidVoice v1.6.11 ★ 12k Fastest macOS dictation with on-device STT and AI enhancement. Open source macOS YuE ★ 12k Frontier music generation with symbolic planning and agentic workflows. Open source local moonshine ★ 11k Very low-latency STT, intent and TTS for voice agents. Open source local supertonic ★ 11k Lightning-fast on-device multilingual TTS via ONNX. Open source local pocket-tts v4.0.1 ★ 10.0k A TTS that fits in your CPU. Open source local openwhispr ★ 9.7k Voice-to-text dictation with local and cloud (BYOK) models. Open source desktop mlx-audio ★ 8.1k TTS, STT and STS library built on MLX. Open source macOS vibe ★ 7.8k Transcribe on your own device. Open source desktop dograh ★ 5.9k Open-source voice AI platform; self-hosted alternative to Vapi and Retell. Open source self-host MOSS-TTS ★ 4.2k Open-source model family for long-form speech and voice design. Open source local openless ★ 3.9k Hold a key, speak, release — AI-polished text at your cursor. Open source desktop vocode-core ★ 3.8k Build voice-based LLM agents — modular and open source. Open source Python VoiceStudio ★ 81k An open-source, fully local ElevenLabs alternative: voice cloning, voice design, video dubbing, dictation, transcription and audiobooks (646 languages per the README), default engine built on k2-fsa/OmniVoice; exposes a local API and MCP for agents; one-command desktop install on macOS / Linux. AGPL-3.0 Open source ChatTTS v0.2.5 ★ 40k A generative speech model for daily dialogue. Open source SDK fish-speech v1.5.1 ★ 33k SOTA Open Source TTS Open source API chatterbox v0.1.2 ★ 27k SoTA open-source TTS Open source SDK faster-whisper v1.2.1 ★ 26k Faster Whisper transcription with CTranslate2 Open source SDK whisperX v3.8.6 ★ 25k WhisperX: Automatic Speech Recognition with Word-level Timestamps (& Diarization) Open source CLI CosyVoice v2.0 ★ 24k Multi-lingual large voice generation model, providing inference, training and deployment full-stack ability. Open source SDK sherpa-onnx tauri ★ 15k Speech-to-text, text-to-speech, speaker diarization, speech enhancement, source separation, and VAD using next-gen Kaldi with onnxruntime without Internet connection. Support embedded systems, Android, iOS, HarmonyOS, Raspberry Pi, RISC-V, RK NPU, Axera NPU, Ascend NPU, x86_64 servers, websocket server/client, support 12 programming languages Open source SDK SenseVoice v1.0.0 ★ 9.6k Open-source SenseVoiceSmall model for Mandarin, Cantonese, English, Japanese, and Korean ASR, language ID, emotion recognition, and audio event detection. Open source SDK Kokoro-FastAPI v0.9.0 ★ 5.6k Dockerized OpenAI-compatible wrapper for Kokoro-82M text-to-speech w/multiplatform CPU, AMD, NVIDIA GPU PyTorch; multi-speaker, clone-tuning, caption timestamps, SSML, optional readalong web UI Open source API Fish Audio Drama 3 Fish Audio’s next-gen TTS model (HF, 2026-10-01): a 35B-parameter MoE text backbone with 3B active per token plus a 10-codebook audio decoder; up to 16 characters per text via speaker tags, voice cloning, natural-language tags like [sighs]/[laughs], automatic chunking with streaming for long text; supported by SGLang-Omni and vLLM-Omni from day one. Research licence — check the terms before commercial use Open source Haimian Music ByteDance/Douyin's AI music app that writes songs from one prompt. Closed / commercial Free WebiOSAndroid Moyin Chinese AI voice-over platform for short videos and audiobooks. Closed / commercial Freemium Web Murf AI AI voice-over and voice agent platform with human-like speech. Closed / commercial Freemium WebAPI superwhisper AI voice-to-text dictation in any app, offline or cloud, 100+ languages. Closed / commercial Freemium macOSWindowsiOS Whistle Cactus Compute on-device ASR: single ~16.9 MB .cact file, same engine as Needle; transcription, word timestamps, speech embeddings; EN/DE/FR/ES/IT/NL/PL Open source
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